RUNNING THROUGH MENOPAUSE
By Karen Dove Barr
By Karen Dove Barr
HOW TO MAKE IT
OVER THE HILL
OVER THE HILL
In her first book, Running Through Menopause, the author relates her experiences as a middle-age woman who morphs into a physically active runner.
Filled with useful tips on running and general health, this book helps you to find that “It’s never too late to discover the champion hidden within.”
The book covers dressing for running, survival without makeup, staying motivated as an older athlete, combining running with travel, and proselytizing your spouse and children.
Karen Dove Barr lives and runs in Savannah, Georgia where she has practiced law since 1977. She and her husband Joe have five children and eight grandchildren.
Available now from Amazon.com
Contact Karen or schedule her as a motivational speaker at
karendovebarr@hotmail.com
Contact Karen or schedule her as a motivational speaker at
karendovebarr@hotmail.com
Karen Dove Barr was a fifty-year-old,
size 14, working mother when the last of
her children grew up and abandoned her.
All that remained was a sixty hour-a-week
paid job and three bedrooms full of belongings
rejected by the Salvation Army.
In an effort to fill the void Karen began exercising despite the fact that her timing and coordination were so bad that she was:
Running forced Karen to replace her wardrobe with size 6s and 4s. Unlike most of her non-running contemporaries, Karen’s blood pressure and cholesterol remains at levels usually seen in healthy twenty-year-olds. Ten years later she’s still running twenty miles a week.
Her book adds advice from doctors, a personal trainer specializing in geriatric exercise, and an exercise therapist who is also a gerontologist and a runner.
If she can do it, you can too. Following the experts’ techniques will allow most aging non-athletes to become healthy runners.
In an effort to fill the void Karen began exercising despite the fact that her timing and coordination were so bad that she was:
a) Asked to drop out of rhythm
band second grade
b) Invited out of the gym by an aerobics instructor in her thirties.
c) Offered a refund when she signed up for clogging class in her forties.
b) Invited out of the gym by an aerobics instructor in her thirties.
c) Offered a refund when she signed up for clogging class in her forties.
Running forced Karen to replace her wardrobe with size 6s and 4s. Unlike most of her non-running contemporaries, Karen’s blood pressure and cholesterol remains at levels usually seen in healthy twenty-year-olds. Ten years later she’s still running twenty miles a week.
Her book adds advice from doctors, a personal trainer specializing in geriatric exercise, and an exercise therapist who is also a gerontologist and a runner.
If she can do it, you can too. Following the experts’ techniques will allow most aging non-athletes to become healthy runners.